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Princeton's WordNet

  1. flatterer, adulatornoun

    a person who uses flattery

Wiktionary

  1. flatterernoun

    One who flatters.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Flatterernoun

    One who flatters; a fawner; a wheedler; one who endeavours to gain favour by pleasing falsities.

    Etymology: from flatter.

    When I tell him he hates flatterers,
    He says he does; being then most flattered. William Shakespeare, Jul. Cæs.

    Some praises proceed merely of flattery; and if he be an ordinary flatterer, he will have certain common attributes, which may serve every man: if he be a cunning flatterer, he will follow the arch flatterer, which is a man’s self. But if he be an impudent flatterer, look wherein a man is conscious to himself that he is most defective, and is most out of countenance in himself, that will the flatterer entitle him to perforce. Francis Bacon, Essay 54.

    If we from wealth to poverty descend,
    Want gives to know the flatt’rer from the friend. Dryden.

    After treating her like a goddess, the husband uses her like a woman: what is still worse, the most abject flatterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 113.

    The publick should know this of your ladyship; yet whoever goes about to inform them, shall be censured for a flatterer. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. flatterer

    Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. It is also used in pick-up lines when attempting to initiate sexual or romantic courtship. Historically, flattery has been used as a standard form of discourse when addressing a king or queen. In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince. Many associations with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as the Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the second bolgia of 8th Circle of Hell. An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many literary works. Examples include Wormtongue from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Goneril and Regan from King Lear, and Iago from Othello.

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  1. flatterer

    A flatterer is a person who often compliments or praises others, typically in an excessive or insincere way, in order to win approval, gain advantage, or manipulate others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flatterernoun

    one who flatters

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flatterer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flatterer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of flatterer in a Sentence

  1. Cosino DeGregrio:

    Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

  2. Saadi Shirazi:

    Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

  3. Francis Bacon:

    There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

  4. Proverb:

    When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.

  5. Proverb:

    A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.

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